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Cftfjjttfttt WisiUv. COLUMBIA, S. C. Wednesday, January 12, 1870. EDITORS; Knv. A. It. RUDE, Columbia, S.-C, Ekv. J. I. Mu jab, Staunton, Vi. prise. . “1h essentials unity, in non ewential* liberty, in all iking* charity." TERMS: 11 JlMarono .53 iramber*. l.M for <h* mouth*. *t» ** TOO fi* l&ite months ......13 " ftff~ A H oomimuiie»»lo.is rails! be written correct^ ami legibly. and accompanied with rite uibm of tke writers, which, Iiovrevw, qwj bo withheld (torn the public. Correspondents mad «ot expe.-t declined coramauicniioos to be re turned.. “ OT We retjnest our subscribers to make ■ f 4 leauttonrea t* at only in registered letters, or in the form of poet office moaer outer* or bank checks All such remittance* are at oor riak. W t can. net lain Ike rub wkea mosey is ml m martgutend letter>. Vormerlj- there m«j have been some ground k«r the remark, that "the only effect of reglam- . ,{ lion is jouly to make the hitter more liable to be stolen." But under the new law, which went into-operation last June, we think registered letters are porftctly sale: and we know from ' " almost dally experience that others are sot. Nonce to PosntiSTeau.—Puatmastetethrongb- out the country will save Rouble by Obeying the laws in regard to newspapers, «e. When a papae remains dead In the office fbr four consecutive . , weeks, it ie the doty of Uie postmaster or hie - deputy to amid the publisher of the pnper a written riot "S ef cite (bet—stating, if possible, the reason why the paper i» not taken. fTte reluming U. the publislicr of e paper marked ”uot taken,’ •Teftieed," or •'uncalled Br,* ta not a lega notiue. HHWBHHS5S? Not knowing witnt siuves* be met with, we are silent on that hoo*v; but we must give (cqn-i-ssioa to our disappointment aud regret, Iwvaase he foiled to visit our editorial work shop. Wo entertaiu the kiudest feelings towards him; we are -pot jealous, Tlie work in which we are engaged is not our individual enter It is in the service of the Church that we are engaged ; It in for the Church that we strive; it is Tor the welfare of souls that we toil; it js for the houor and glory of (lud that we act. If Brother Aldricli is a better and more tu-ycptuble workmau than Brother Mii!gr and wo nrt^ and if ho is the choice of the €burch, we are both ready to vacate the premises, to innke onr rwjrectful bow, autl dis appear altogether. In the. uieautime, we hope thnt Brother Aldrich will call on us the next time he comes this Premiums. We will give to any one who sends us two Subscribers and oue copy of “ IHstinetire Doctrines.” We will give for four-Subscribers and $10,*t copy of »*7.i/e ami Deeds of Luther." We w(U give for five Snbscrilters ami ARhftO, u ropy of “ Luther'* Ser mon*, V9I.1.; or-it' preferred, a copy of a DP. Sit**' Eceltsia Sacra;” or “ Luther'* Church Pot til," in 18-num bers. We will give for ten Subscribers and 125, a copy of ** The Book of Concord." The name* and the money must accompany each other. As regards premiums due fitr Vol. L, the former publishers are reopon- Bible. For the premiums for Vol. II., we are. A. R. RUDE, J. I. MILLER.- THE U Til EUAN V1 s I TOB-UOUJMB^A fa Jf EP ?(piMJ..,JANHA8¥|i2, 1870^— ■ | ■ r | way. Brother Jnlian, formerly of North Oitroliua, did the same tiling, and he bus uow gone to the Kuieker bofikers. Vick’s Floral G cnJK, I*TO.—We have received from the pubiuil»?r,Mr. James Vick, of Rochester, X. Y., a copy of his tastefully-prepared anil lieautifully illustratetl “Catalogue of Seed* and Floral Guide." It is printed on fhu; tinted paper, with about 200 wood engravings of flowers autl veg etables, and a beautiful colored plate —Consisting of seven varieties of l’hlox Dmiumondii, making a fine bonqurt of Phloxes. It is the most beautiful, as well as the most- iugtrne tive floral guide published, giving plain and thorough directions for tin* culture of flowers and. vegetables. It is published for the benefit of cus tomers, to whom it is sent free with out application, but will be forwartlcd to all who apply by mail, for 10 cents, which is not half the cost. Small Fruit ReCoeiuir and Cottage Gardner.—We arc in re ceipt of this valuable little monthly paper, edited by A. M. Purdy, (suc cessor to Purdy & Johnston) of Pal Riyrn, X. Y. It eon tains the most practical articles in relation to this subjoct we ever saw, and shonld lie in the bands of every person who has a garden of even a real squares The price is only 50 cents a year. Send stamp for a specimen copy and circu lar containing offer to those getting wp elitbs. We notice nny person gct : ting up a club of six has. oue copy gratis. He also sends cut a valuable little : Met Alone. We LutUeraus are not the only people, who are at variance among ourselves. Thu apirit of the age, in utter contempt of tlie work of former times, autl alsmuduig with over weening self-confidence, treats every where the yhurchly creeds, ouak-rw iomJ aud usages, the healthy growth and the gradual. devel.ipiuent of the church’s inner life, aud the utter ances aud manifestations of her spir itual consciousness, as foolishness, superstition and errors. It over throws mid tramples upon whatever it nuinot tinhorn ami explain to its own. satisfactiou, and in gminlaiiei- with its arbitrary, aud often whined cal, canons. Aud yot, at the same time, au evjdruce of its utter and entire imtbility to obtain rest, and to reach its goal—the restoration of the divine image and likeness, tiiat setf- saiuc spirit of our ugv, in defiance both of reason of wltich it boasts and claims exclusive possession, aud of revdatiou which it iuUrprets for itself, privately, and with utt«-r disre gard of the “Holy Christian Church," as fh«‘ Creiil has it, and also of de cency anti order, of hiatory aiui ex perience, aud of the letter iu a hu h the spirit dwells, dogmatises and rants; displays the wildest fanati cism, and fikshions evanescent sys tems of doctrine, one of the over thrown symbols anti rules, wlfieb are parts of ffU eternal whole, and only perfect und eilkaiO'ous in tlieir estahlisind flhod divinely dst'reed connection as the tnitli divines; re- OthMuMen in tlie Irish IVesby ti-run Ge«eral Assembly’s Polli gw at Bel- last, iu his inaugural inHum tlie other day, tisA oes asitm-fo reftf to tlie remarks made at the recent meeting of Presbyterian minister* and cjfiee-bearers iu Isrodoiw i» 3£SaA&23$%.°c*. fessiou of Faith. After stating that he was retiuirwl to train the students ill the. knowledge ^f the Btgmbitds of the-C^iBrrW, nad the tntmrs of the Westuuuster Asseiublv iu liU3 and four following years, he si|i<i; So king as the Oonn-s»ion of Faith und the Shorter tuid Larger (lute- eh isms remain the recoguised stAU- dunls of the Preshy ten.iu l.'hmvh, we, at least, shall hot be aidiamwl of theqi. (Applauw.) It was iti England they were constructed. It was in England the other day, by a PresbyteriMu miuWUir, that it was recommended, if they U‘ not abol ish(sl,^fo-y slonildpt ijrmu lieabrnlgisl. It is rep>sps) iu tfie^tiliile press that a social meeting of tlie ministers and oflieebwjrers of the United and Kugli^l f’resbyterian Ghuri-liea was held in Loudon. Iuj8,'e.su»« of tlie evening, we an 1 toiu that A pais r ’was reed o*i “The nffTttiAaof Pivsby- terians to' other Chut -i|A, and the hi—as to be leurued from these Churches." In this paper, tlie author (tlie Rev. Mr. Murray, of Croydon), it ia reported, advocated flic expedi eney of the l*rest»yteria:i Churrlie* shoi teuiog the (Xinfession of KnitU, if lliey were to make prngrere in England and aorure the iulelUgeut assent of layinea to tbs propositions contahicd iu It. “These Were what ■night Is* mlled the accidents of Prcs- byteriauisw. Thra>> he wnnhi set usiilc. Three were atuteukelits that were valuable at the »iau« the Cou lession wai framed, but were not a< hip ted to the state of things in the present day.* In our simplicity wre bud siqqsisisl that “the truth <fl*Kisl cuduivth u> all gciM-rattoiws" and that he is iutluite, cUinul. uud un changeable in his initb. -Xo," say s these Cborehea; **the lessons yon aiv to learn from ns, are. that the state ments of the Mandarin of tho Pres byterian I'hwvhes welt- true on,* mi|uiataluilili tpdif|Rioiis that We art | But Mow we will stop, 1 ■a reflerei that Mt laboring w lioty ia v»in,'«irry|you, Mr. Senior, and the rediers will with t hern a overt rt" aid. HVtar# hav*Wl *%»MTy ChristiOih t«id a W doing I Isstk at ttl Wo are happy Xew KWr,» and that having bringing the Church ill the Mouth, the Church of the Reformation, into of ;< ^J*[«ot»ooand eg'^Pbiuty, - Why, ha much intelligence of onr beloved Zion in the Southern Staten, nA « e gud ia the lost two numbers of the Would not uiuw out in u .veur through nny channels rmtside our territory. 'Pliere is, in AV. IA, agreeable mleliigenre, new to limit of OUT reudem, and to as, conermlng till) Mi**i**iypi Synod. All honor and success to this tittle but energetic baud of luiuiMurs aud members! " iU they not hove some one to rep- rreuat them iu our uext Humeral Synod at Winchester t Thro, **W,» iu w luiui we thiuk wo recognise au old and valued fricud und fellow-pupil, tells us things about the Church ia a (Sirtiou of Teuuessci', that cup not foil to iutonwt. Tlieu, *11. K. K.* our new Uiul truly able ixirrespondent from N. C., cuutribntre iufornuttiou of tin* highest iai|s»rta»l»er, ronci-ming the Lutheran etatn* and «*al of the Chareh ia that State. Amt all this ia supplemented with interesting Items of Churrb Intelli- gom-e forms hid by youi self, with re gard to diflorent point* in your own gathered experience and strength from the lessons and labors of the tuts* we will sU enter-with TViStwfsl leal otid hope njmn tlie dilfles of an other year, ffr) 1/ by tbs Senior. not sig*. He groan* 1. He dor* and growls. > *' 3. Amen! Ament 3. Tlie “gentlemanly pMukenT don’t mind “ Wa have whis|>rred *tiii wre are hoarse, aud hinted Hit we are ashamed of—them. Hrafher junior, don’t you know that Hans Anderson sow fti Tartarus publishers changed to fot rabbits, and authors to greyhounds Iu foil imrKgft f IWt yon know that book sellers drink-their Wine out of the skulls of authors t Don’t yon know that the Oenero! Synod took the |>re minm In the sale of lloriks of Worship for 1*08, and did not shure with as even to the smount of one cent, though We hod been n faithful work erf Brotlier Junior, it is stern win ter now where yon Uvtf; jathere any thing green outside fttauuton t 4. Yew, bat onr people in Columbia are not for behind them. The two EtaUv Nothing from the brethren oft day-springs melt the hearts, make the I tea Synods of Virginia, yon say f the milk of tinnmn kindnesg flow free Ah, bat my good brother, we are |y, mid make the people here liberal suoweij up here, as you may inter mui kind girrra. But Ska miin robbed from tits s.iyiug of O little boy to nr them. this ia certainly a 5. Oh, dal-you ever—hear the like t COme from above.” We «y .1 men to that- Any union w hich Jg no% pom of the word and the spirit; any onion wfeiclt has not oh« Lord, one fhitli, and one baptism, is bold together by a rojie of ssihL, and ibr faintest agi tation from within dissolves it. 4. What is a call to the Gospel Min istry t Sound #nd rraclieal. a.— Bunm-minifa «Lurch df*Gtimt. 6. Foreign Missions. 7. Card of Kev. Ibr. P. A. Ross. 8. Critical Xotireo. Jjrkre uud Wehre. December, 1800. Ht Looih.. Contents: ; 1 1. Dvr tstutu* Oontrovernfap. 2. , ijt Die vier Boiebe don Daniels. S. Zurl Vorthei dignng dre <-hristetithtims. 4. Der Materialismos. 5. Kerch lich ZeitgvschiclitMehes. bloehieood. Deeetnlier, 18(59. Leon nrd Srott Ifobtishiiig Co., New York. Contents: 1. John, Part II John is nothing bat a booby, gotten np for the occa sion. 2. Mystery of I'assion Flays. Curious and instructive. 3L F. W. Faber’s Life and Lettm. 4. The Faraeae Sago.—Charming. /We love the old Xorthmen, though they were not meek men. 5. Cornelius O*- Dowd. fl. Egypt anil tlie Story of the Kn« (’anal.—Quite satisfactory. Ttiough brief, it yet eontajns mai U valuable informatfou. We reail larger works, bnoka, about Egypt Wid been less l«-ne fit ted. 7. EalVa Dene. Fart II. 8. The Gov ernment American AgricuUuritt. January, 1870. Jmld St Co, Few York. We do not own an inch of mother the ollurr day, Xurth snow ekoteer," and tlie brethren Who i» the folfow w itb such a nose.' ,-arth, and of the belonging* to the on* gone into trinler yuaityn. ] leg enough to lie pulled, solj<l euough ’ x .-^-tnUlc kingdom » an- only jwr- Vou rnu-4 not forget that our cli- to he puinJiad’; but utterly unable to ' mitted to call one little Verbena our mate is not so favorable for a win follow tho scout. That uuui's new J own jdant, and we borrowed the tert campaign aa ia tho “ saany and that uiau’s|heml are not hollow ! j i u tho Tnuit ganlen, which it South." Therefore, I pray thee ex- ( Brother junior, try bosh with a gim 1 now oevapies. Hat that little plant ouse these -kniglil* of the gotsu- let. ‘ is the eoiim-eting link which unites , - - rjuiil i" for, from the food of comma | u Our Ckristuia* waa too wet tn 1 ns with, uud makes us one of, the two re nfuiies ago—.mt tUey ar^not , »tnsW— these brethrev* |ioarr<l into' Is: asetQ'. It ruined, aud it is cloudy [ cultivators of the anil. We there daring the summer, j yet. But Brother junior, let us labor ' and Due now; that what was truth in,. „ 1043 is not tnith in: 1W9." (An 1 ** planse.) In a rorlo age, wiih <Klr , y-nr own got*I sense .fil suggest th. on, barb;iron*evelesiastieaiaruvaturs.rcr- propriety of rent mi their pait (Au | tuia propositions were well euough; rent sow.) In the hist Xol, just to but (i a refined age like ths prem-ut,, hMU i, ura w «ie aeqnainte.1 with ’ among pnltlvatwl Fresbyterians, the . . ,. u(! lh< , ff merm u r forth of the old Church of John Knox ‘ ,,or ' u “* errmemoir and of the W. stralnst. r Assembly. •*'** •rrertnd servant of God, John ' «'*• I Ulust ,m^s away, too < ^ rcgHy apn>fiul)le ilive*UHeii| yven mn not uiul uuiMt not bo «*i>4iir« «L i IUo Ubaoii, II. trf l laiWon. i* 4 tbrjfoUen, A lit* us> ^ ouc .,j^ (Loud amtlattse.j IMemUt nt, j* lire , srioely wetting his Imuseui uniar, pn* »•«*» henre, aud uo nisn will uieution i „ t ^,; iq,s-iohr. What must it Is- *" a .i’. t :i' C !.‘ , !r S l»wsw*tor> to the great change, which A few years further on, atul no ihcrafiitt, tti the Wiicn in**b*r*#ms. To ilt«| who*r UfHssI UP ffU.dtug TW tURMtil «/ t 1 *# sk'^SL.** v<* Ifo EiUwrts Vtat* 4 Book of Worship HO. a Okjoetion.—'Dkn uuuh Afticj, the Confession tenches that Christ • not merely re).re««ite<l by the and wine, bat that He‘|g present in the commuofoi,, m.n foiwdbykM eomnmnicsnt. ^ Answer.—You are <jnrte etm£, WHl JMWwara ia-iw^fct; /’* view of this doctrine fof^P^ hups, the most distinctive fratw*^/ r vt kern hi tin. | , . / '( | y** We do not, however, deny thatth. bread and wine represent the bod and Mood of Christ. Tliey ^ 7/ bolt of that body and Idoorl- also hold moot firmly that, f a -■?- tion to bread and wine, Christa issl and blood are in the Long. SupfJ If not, 1 hen tlu-re would h* l»read and wine, and we, in pm*t ‘“K "< *. would “criebrew* a, Ia»rd’» death just as loyal ^ the U. 8, celebrate the Fourth u( July. Itris certainly would f-oatfcry empty eeremonr, and it would kindle about os much love to oor Bay four as those Fonrth of j n(v celebrations enkindle iu m, ' • have countr 5- Bot ** UoW (battbaLraf, Hii|«per is a sacrament, not an carp,, eemnony. A sacrament is 8* ^* enjoined by fod, and haring’wld^ to it a dirine amurance or greet a holy act instituted by God, ; rt . ing of au eh-meut, an external aigu. aud of something Inaveiity; by Which act, GisI not isrly* seals tlir luomise of trrtuf. pecnliar to-"the Gostiel, that is, tlie graeions forgive, ness of sin*, but also through the elements truly imparts to every «* who puitak.-s of the --rnnsriit, heavenly ;*>.-**.-Asiou*, whiek. He promised at the iustRlltiw of the Ku-rameiit, aud which are apnropri. atc<i to Mitrfoi for their -“Ivation." The u external sigu” we iwM to lie the bread and wine—ths “mm*- thiug heavenly," we ImM to he the I*sly attrl blood of ( brisk. Es « I hr is joyfully ueliripaUng. ' man will have heard of its. But the i 1 : *' 1 The troth venerttble on tu count of th--ir antiq uRy, bu» braudrd ns --acx-identS" bv , . , . ■ ® ®... eiegnat ehrei***—dibtta.iti dirine*— May (he mid at his litr, which, for ; * ,,r * £ " rr srerliSiignlnJcs. tuust yield totliedrma.uDof rnwh-ru ,„,.re than half ■ centnry , has shoue *• advocate is eternal. Tlie Chareh expediency and the uflectod reUue- ^ tradybrighfrors *.-t wPHost , »«• labor ih “»* *t»«rs uentof rmbvtrriim !a\ ^wul« ii»t*u . , / * 1 . . , in England. With the t. aching* “ ch.iul, and may hwsne-cssor mhenl of the Westminster divines; and with * donbV tHirthm of his spirit, that he the Aitsvhly itself,»* Freshytsrhuia. - L-rav h-.rd <«i t-> stitl gn-:«ti*re-Miqin**?K, we Uvoni our entire rati*faction, i ggilo etw t Hoad of God. (t.) ‘•Tiiat Assembly was the coUrctive j P». T| ie man who owns i ;,v, ewu-ruw uiul ul.u-v at t' » »!-... **8am Sm:i!l w continues in this Xrv, - , ‘ V' , ah, wseiKN-, anu g.ory nt tuouu-o-i . , iug evermore, evermore! Thirik at, ot the age. (Loud sjuJauaev) the nilnkb »erh-s thrt he is grvtng , f f , U ml thou eh faint vet tor iimpoi,, d of nren foB of ttre rijic to tire Chnreh. snd whh-h. We orittre, ” , ’• gi th. imE sraoMonioral who*- ..a, , —m a ... * «* -Vuicn ! " veaksL Nay, that very spuit, as , . iutok-iaat as Auti-C'Urist, amt it is' Compow. indued au AutkChriafi anathmuatio s -l'irRof tho lm,'. nmdimt, fi-d who**u H , hrsirt* wen* at bold a* there pwt.. | and itorsucutra all who rafuse. to lit*- * was ardeut, their learning cggeii. ir c, eoatinties in this Xrx, -s that and whhb. nerve. In no tmoll degree to re ,n"ne utitorrnded prejitdlee* n'gwnist. of hell shall not |uevail ag.itust it The King We serve shall reign forever. ■, hfcl And tlien. Brother, you and I, ami ’ all tin- itiiig-.nt aud fait burl workers „ . dailI stand before Ilia tfinme, pnda- * f*** f^ f ’ IH .*° evennoee, evermore! Think of und s.m, .->t. Unns, Mo. This Auui-.nae is stijierior to the let «s live, k-l us Uie] Amen • n '^' ll,v ,H ' Gennan, aud also hrrad raw and dense forests, w ith trees and plants imtumorabD. It is only #1.58 s yeas, mid thrfce who do not like to tea,I it in English, may MiWrils- for the Herman Ar/rieultur- j irieiid teils ns is even j U-tter tlmn irr.EngH.-4i twin-brother. . A. Wiebush We P*** ** "*• ■<-reived Chari - Issly aud hluod in the Lord’s8upp*r. and also the protnwo of grace, from the ricriptutve themsoives. “Take, the (ioefrisss nnd umtgotuf ourChnreh. meat in my blood, which is .. J agra and elements; to frame a s> .s spirit, and , J trafh whh . h n| , e £ iug towards j tloas yet nnlsvrn ; to ca-t Fi-otrv rdsi pi’e on m lelity uti l sup 'huivh^and a k.*iii->' Kf'dh'lnsnly publishers of the Hook. I Nymsl, has enterrel u;s>n his tour of etc. The illustrations are good, ea- struetlon, and civil Ka ^ *'** a rii.Ies will greatly | doty, and we wonld earnestly solicit pecially the engraving n-pn-seuting | PWwb&pM- every oue that will not worship its i»m into a pyrumidai pile oa which ' “Emails," tior a Knim-t for the Mad (\,||eg,-. wonld state that the Rev iumgr, which it erects, wherever it i lb 4 * wuvcti iff infidelity und su|«-iali j :! ib, won’t yon just whisjier to the' w. a. Ilonck, tire agent r’.w tcvl by It latte* : tion should Is at in vain, ! doing, to nave a ( dom ironi rnin, destrm ij able to usurp un altar, many; it loves but few. • We doubt {whether any eititrcli is free front that spirit of evil; lait of j then, ou which, in the opinion of those ' and tliefr. (TJ And here Is another »i»ast<ws in onf couuection, whr-n vis.' wc snp|M>se. The cow ia assurediy course the forger, the greater the] (he sweeps of scepdeiani and Hem of IntrlHgeneh'ftwai Wiimhuton,) tt^d by him. tho most cxtraurOinary auimal we which “B. K. (’." has gotten hold of, i fOMMITTEE 'and furnishes our renders with all*- * — - — wivrk called the Small Fruit Jiutrue-! There. extent, the more jsiwcrfnl the iufiu- . enee, and the stronger the resfotam-e to*its usuipations of 0)iy individual church, the mnru violent must the conflict between tlry sjiirit und such church be. It is violent iu our Lu theran Church, hut it is also to he met with iu the Episcopal aud the Reformed Clmtcbes. We do not atone suffer from tlie efforts put forth to destroy tlie Church’s real life, identity, tnid dhtiuetive features by the auu-udiueat or the ubbre\ iatiou, or the entiro alteration of the Cou- tdt, which lias received the. liighest t£»tiuiouials,frou tlx-most promiiient hortieaitunil»ts and pomologrsts in the United States. It tells how to plant and grow all kinds of small fruits! 1/riee only 50 cents. Address for either of the above, the above party-- "• is ia the Episcopal Church a htiong party, who clamors for a versiou of the Book of Common I’raycr, and even among our stayed Presbyterian brethren,, are men found, who", as we learn from the Southern Presbyterian, are wanting to “shorten tlie Confewion." We give the article in full, as it in our opinion would Ik* unfair to do otherwise; nnd feel confident that every reader of the Lutheran,\eho will substitute Luther anism and Lntberan for Presbyteri anism Aud Presbyterian ; and Luther for Ktiox; and Melaucthon, and Jtte- tas Jonas, and Bugenhagen, aud Hotter, and Gerhard for the cham pions of the 1 l’resbyterian Church ; and the Augsbin-g Confession and the smaller Catechism 'for tli-3 West minster Confession and the Assem bly's Catechism, will be satisfied, that the spirit which is troubling .onr Presbyterian brethren n identienl with the Bpirit tiiat isfristmfoing us; | and that the battle that we are fight ing has to he fonght by them also. We advise tlietu to hold fast to the ; doctrineR, and to do the work- of the j lathers ; and wc must practice wTmt we presell, i. we too inrtst bold Bid not Read the Taper. Rev. 4-—r- writes, Januafy 4th: “„Yo paper this treek, ichut is the mat- tsrf” - We announce^ once, and called at- tention/to it a second tinie, that the Fruiters were bent ou keeping Christ mas, and that we therefore, eould not pay onr weekly visit during the week between Christmas and Xew Year. We Row state for the information of all, who are yet wondering what the Visitor is about, drat the Editors, the Printers -and the Readers were all too intent on the festivities of tlie season to attend to the office; but that now we are hard at work again, and ready to receive communications, subscriptions and P. O. orders. THE EDITORS, ■ / ' • ■ ■ ->'<* Rev. H. Aldrich. . , ; . f . . .. ■ fast to our Confession, and confess as Wo U-nrn that our goorl brother ^ "as iu .bar Mt.nr a • y, ijtnh o An Irish Presbyterian I'rofemr on raise funds with which fo rente Mfi PrvpoteA nf confession of paper, the Ecangdicnl Lutheran,' He j pnilh.—TUe Rev. Frofnaaor Rodgers, was also in this city, but did not enll'. the successor of the lute l)r. Cook in on ns , f ive rhsir of Burred Rhetoric nnd irriiitrary jsrwer wonld lu-stts- broken, was Presliyftn isnistn. (Applause.) Presbyteiianism, as the recognised uutiouai faith," us the iiielssit, whieh, ' the promptness of a salaried reporter. I being manned and scut to sea, «n f And, nr passant, hit not those Wit- 1 to save Protestantism, amt liberty, 1 niingt.'.n iwople a model for tin- gen - muLtmert-lTOintbestorin; and , iin{tn(jon „ f th( , n „ ln ., vtM ftoch fin noumain^ iUrofy, Wf I , „ , , r t , 9 f cau hut pity .the reridutionary jmlir-y , rli, ' - v * M that ran- (hn-tian grnr-e, of tiKsleijn reformiug eivh-SMstice, i nrvn Al.TTV f (4.) Xow, Mr, Senior, who.would redcofi the glorionx Pres-' wh-n we ’hitrk of wlnt wc are doing byterasiyn of the seventeenth eta.-1 ihroagh <urr pajs-r, in the way of The Southern Octofo-r, 1W0. ’ L 1’lUfiea! inn. 2. Form of Government. tnry, of the Cf Faith, and r .. , . ... of the Cfttcdbtan* —of Alexander m “h"g the Cbnn h accounted with Hcndonw, Hnnmel Huth.-rhwrL Hot. itself, m the South, provoking one an ert Bailie, and George Gilltstpie—to other to lore and good teorks, through tire low level or tire beggarly elements these same revelation*, wc can’t close and shifting expedfoneM of VOb-n 0 „ r (o foet, ,) liCt „ nd is ^ StSSSfSHSSlTSSi * ^ wi ! u ««* gent foytut-n, (Applause.) of sueli tprality as will one day ripen into n harvest of abundant aud lu-av- Dear Senior: M’e are not yet fur j ‘ idy Omit, enongh remover! from the]iolhlays to Rut before we close ottr desultory monnt the stilts ami send you, from it marls, as the preacher would say, that Stately elevation, a regular built J we must refer to our corn-*|M>udeut* editorial, so we will throw off a few from tlie tjnalrr city, who, we hate thoughts in the dress of free mnl easy i just learned, ore ar(judgcd to be some- epistolary ehit-vlmt. j laaly in the Booth, playing o part, Aud first, and middle, aud last, we am) feiguing to be way up yonder in will talk about a topic of absorbing i 1‘liila. (A) Now, to ell concerned, interest, to at leant Uco persons in the General Synod South. The theme is The Lutheran Visitor. Tin- Interest ed.persons, tlie senior and junior edi tors of tiie same. Yon luotr uud believe that the jun ior of (his firm is a member thereof, not by, but agoiust his. own ciioicts. we most emphatically declare,that they are real, bona-fide Philadelphia ColTC*|>ondeuta. Linden, r-qucN-ruing whose articles wv bare heard fort oue opinion, which is tiiat they are rich, racy and instruct lee, is n pastor of one of the Lutheran Clngthwiof that city, well known to tho Juu. editor, whs And, inasmuch as it is a burden ut; rer.mived litenac\ «t the same tio-e uo easy wearing, he Ua* often frit like with him, to preach tho Gospel of our seeking some lodging iu the vast wil, Loixl Jesus Christ. Ho is a noble dernoss, where be might shake .41 Christian brother, and a preaeip-r pf the cares, and trials, nuc] toils which deserved celebrity, who has s wans this position impose*. You, Mr. heart towards all his Southern broth Senior, have uo doubt more than ren - .4 o- ■ J once too, sighed for the Kings of a “Uohynfi though a less fr equent dorr, that you might fty strop and be correspondent, nod of a later aye, as at rest. (I.) Geologists would say, is a temporary Bnt ve confess to no Jittfo refresh- inhabitant of Phil*., Mid who, WX ex- ment, even at our- post, derived (rum is-et, some .lay, U. make his -mark in perusing the last number*of tbe I’u- ; some one of our 8o.ithern pulpits, is iter. Wo could but feel that “the fast coming into notice as a writer silver aud gold wo foul none," nay, j. who wields a ready aud vigorous pen, tinr grrenharlf, for our wprk, yet Uie whose favors r-annot come lot* often. I ever saw, but uo wonder, she gives ( “twenty quarts of uritk per day." We hope that tlie Carolinian is font Is-coming a favorite. Presbyterian Ferine, . The Maryland Farmer,—An invnlu- Coliinibia, 8. C. aide Monthly to the l-arau-r, Gardner, A.-^hanjust closed its V Land will com - Dte Amended menee its VII v.iluuu- with January. A Christian Now is a good time to sttbarrihe. It a review of is a neat, ui*Lni«tive-)K-ri<sheai. pol, fished at the low price of #1A0 per Addrero A. & Mills & Co., Fnity.—Tlii* article is Bishop I/eigliton’s tract: “ A Modest Defence of Moderate Episcopacy, annum. Itift2;" reprinted, 1868, with tfo- title; Balttmoiv, Md. “Morlest Episcopacy not inconsistent Meat Mice. Wt with l’tvsbyterjan Frineiples." The ft-viewer «iys\ “It i* one »f tlie Imre rererved several numbers of different period fonts devoted to fashion, folly, nnd most superficial, i.logical, and pre- u.mscnse,■ As we look on sneh read sumptnons |irodnrtfo»U we have ever an highir injwrions to both ronng pernsed. It Is an. Insult to the in mid old. aa.i are ftrtlv convinced that Mligrnce and convictions of l’res thpv ttwir love talcs, fttshloh IrytCrians, and is certainly inconsistoiU pimas, switimcnt dqmctrr, hnpossiMe with the known teachings of Epiaco- cwj ,^ t . n .« of chddrec. and pnlluns." The otdy mutter tol*e eon riekeniag gentlemen, do a great deni ~ ~ r ’ 0 f hann, we cannot reccommend trideretl ill proposals for external Christian finite, it would seem from this effort to establish au agreement tietween moderate Episcopacy and 1‘rcshytdrlan principles, is tiiat of chareh government—ignoring otlier aud even rfibre weighty matter*. “Tbo opinion, that orgaiiir unity is a con dition of the complete success of the (.'Kristina religion, is nothing less Hum supidantitig Ciirist aa Head of llts Cliureh. This ia the spirit of antichrist. A spirit ot noity shnnlil pervade ad bHuohe* of the vinlde chareh, and viH 1a ptvqmrtfon as Christ dweiiain them by faith,’ “Bat all prom trainee gives tothi* matter of them, and hope to be spared the an noyaore and trmible of exHitthting them, as we do not vratit to denonm-e without having tested them. Rot we prefer to buve nothing tw do with that kind of -diterature." Any con •taut reader of anch |Wthl iratkms inuar foes-U*Idy he raided iutcllretnnlly sud morally; for time and eternity. ; We say to every one, ami reproially Cm tire young ladicm—«o yiris um- if you core fur gnatr immortnl oduU, if you want to, he ehi fotiaa women, if tvligiuu, churcit, etoroity, heaven, autl Clout an* refilitttw with you, do not rend the monthly joanmla of fore read (he agricultural papers with d.4-p interest. We may, also, sutnedgy have two Verbenas, and an Apple Geranium. Jwbf* Agricaltur- ' ud is a favorite with us; it pleases j tin- eye, it interests tin- toiu.!, ami it t ter ' m, * t,J * in ( /re*»(a*foa wan-the cutting ofl' ot the fmwskiis-hi the feast oft Ue paschal limb, it was tfo eat tug nt the Ural*—in baptism it h the water-s-in the Lord's Supper;Am the bread tur.l wine—tlie “ t heacealg," was, under the Ohl lifo peusatiou, ivpresent.xi typically, hat under the X.-w m essentially jrr—f. The ejjb.’cy of a sacrament coadsf ;n the Wool ot promise conoertnl with it. Of English Almanacs. Tlie reading **“ F m * »fo*b is giren is rxecTl. iit. We have read the tale fur > °’**"—“«•**** ' “I* - the. hem Tents A Card. —<_ ji ! In it, calhsl, Money and Charity, aud I ^ t Commbu-e appoint It read extensively. I ion '’ ' * re to And a* we will ne’er tfo .Abie to pay M | UBt m «*t„ s of tfo- Svmid The Rural Carolinian, Charleston, 1 . 11,e “ ' vord,! ,re *“ ^ ^ V"* 5 “Ba-* fo any other coin ^an unfriyu i off Jfouth Carolina, to make the mux-s- A ('.—A vervexrelk-nt number, ,*m-» ,u “»*“■ < tne lit.wnl sense—rmt, Hhrse mynify wy aharnt body aud Hoed,’ ten to its oracles, which are as dark, y t ,. lr faith firm—(loud applause);: 1 _ as ambiguous; and as ftwirght witlr j the purjs.se of tlieir meeting how j as set forth in ojr Book or or.0np. evil aud .U-*fructiou ns any ever 1 grand—to settle, nnd as it were utiei«U by a p,vthonesa. It is also a crj stubs.-, the chaos of controverting - proud and aSfrriglitssas spirit, and j 'wbtcU^hiou'tt nde^genei-a'! ** **""**, whi. h, though'g.ssl tn it ; sary arrnugemcnD in enihxiroring to tabling a variety of original aud merciless aud nnre'.entiug towoob | t^a, ng nnbsn t to cost Frotretaat - wil! not Imy bread for the *••• | reflect I'amU, in aM of XfiWtieiTy j selected articles on Agriculture, Il.w- ! _ beo * n ff of a racrrairatwf mrira ticultnre, Mining, Meiiuuiu-s, Immi- 1 gratfon, 8t.sk, Natural History, etc., j they are the body and blood «f Christ. They are (he words of Christ Himself, who is the wisdom smi j truth of God, and He knew exactly (Cheers.) The pyn.itrldsl pile, | nngment, to hand 1dm over a V now tho aid and assistan<-e qf the different a Gel nun cow, and a (it-rmau nun, lww to un- them. Tin- eirenmstaMt* ,1..- .. i..i—. # I _^ #* t - ‘ ' ra“ " uuder which He nttered them lead us to beiieve-tliat lie hod the tt^y highest good of man in bis wM, whwr he instituted tlie sacrament— that He would not, in so important a matter, use metaphors, figures; or fureigu expressions, by which Hh church might be led into error, *»1 thereby lose the benefit of tliis fw portaat sacrament. f!«n !- • He. fi*r the same reason. take* tls* precaution that no metonouiy, bo ebangv in tlie meaning of words, should h*«d any to understand ftim as representing in these signs Hf power. His apirit, or'His grace, tn- stead of fit* body and Hrs blood, tie eleariy sjs-ssks of His 'trde, psseutfol and snhshmthd fosty. Ais.*, all foot of the KvfingeHifts find Paul nnanimottsfy repeat, under inspira tion.'the very same words snd syl lables, without any shadow pf Fbaagr which ottr Barirntr used—This “ my body." : 1 -■ ' * j' Onr rebsons foe understanding, tfo* words literally, may be ftirthor stat ed thus: Oirist 1ms promised His body iu fbc mtcramenf, ;uid He wtt ftiiffl that promise, as He gave ft. F an ' says the bread and wine are the “ commmrtoq " of the body and bkiod of Christ—not, that our spirit* hold communion with flic spirit of ClirriG but the bread and seine are the com inuntoti. Not a comnninyun witli the spirit of Christ, or the ‘ jKiwir 4* Christ, or the grace of Christ—bht with the body of Clrrfst. ffe ^ stya that wt* eat and- rKifilt fife worthily, When we do not' the lAW’s body"—hot,' disreW Hi* spirit, power, Or grace—Wit Hi* body, ff no external nud-.wgwafo chrtaUowunify, tttrtlmitt. Whetfo r they are coa.-orfrd which exults rt nnrialy iwOree the - i n ,> e ® Yrak, I*haladati)his, or Fan- w hfoh Wa eooW m>t do, ff no oraiy mind of the fwsipla of God, which .lemonuun; it ia*tt*iw noT- thev imve ’tw^ Rft-aent. The word * oommnn T mit; they have daona far t* tbo position of -a com- |j,« mjmprimaturf mt His Satanic nmnd of (-brfot,’ or an emeatinl eon- _y i.j,i-i’wn—r dition to tiM trianpb of a»€hrfttMn ' ■■ , religion; we nay »it oacli proposal* An institution lias been establuh- of Christian aaity are fonnderl in _ oft at Maoou, Ga., for the educating error, pernicions in theiFresnlts, nnd aqd ttwining of colored ministers, shonld bo repsobatod hy all thnt under the control of ]>r. E. W. War- love that unity nnd jwaee wlth-h 1 ten, of tlie Bajdist Chnreh. ion," which St. Itml u»ek; slgtiiflr* ‘foommimWtion, feHowsHp, cortven* wfitW*—and he means to «JV ChrwP* body and Wood *ff municafed with the breed and WtW, which have lawn blessed; that t*. the eons«-rated bread and wine are the medium tliroiigh whir-h tlie 1>ody iuid Wood coted* . | 80K tWffo*- ’■** - onebonff' 1 ***** TUore w H bfaly find I m «f, *»d> fl-lTUt froicl after tlie reject the tion. Blit »| aodi blood .•! antler tlie bf to exj»re— which is" operation twatfcraW Jieavenly— twh and b’-| to each - which we manner, an.] do »«t wisl'l . oor do w-el hate the irui| in Acts wh.| in the mi.l" doors beirG there we finl there, we d{ seenf to ns 1 calculated t| the other. The pecuij Lord* Suplf when we double cat.fil spiritnnl, tiif rueotai. I by faith, wi sixth cliapi. ye eat my take [dace ■ the truth oil well as in til place, iu an >| this is enseiJ «url drinki iI or- oacrame| take pla<-< p»*r. it is 11 and bl.Ksl ol ■—one of 11| may also l«- It is a sjiirit( We do no; I physical a presence, 11 cnly jiresetnl w e can not dl H (Kithitrg rr | in saying it tin* month.* it become* : | " si on. Tiie, that Christ glory, llo | ia the Wot. the eye—rmij -kgain, wc I rennvt.-il, .t| «*." Hon Word lire. | borlily organ ewter thr«a the bodil}- n| alone, own Im of St Paul drinketi; uf drinketh daj * discerning believer eat-j e.uise he r< J of Ctrl-d. ' j meutally. nf the Ujpoerri rameotoRy. li n irfhraii a >i * I . IHC4 WI n* v . eondejim very-till, taking, 'i and bio. tlp$«in, wine—ty the hyiij whieh II: honor, al thus in “ erueify l*u» Him These of the I great do. alone fur of study ha Now sion a and of riel* grace, and joj a* tfo* Christ! speenk of lx-twi amuse ll \lt ph to Kim cotnatf; Wo, bo era* <JJ fol tfrf a* Mar corning ductriu min and s.„ Sheet i in the l at *50.( award* this kin